Social Norms In Society

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Social Norms are the behaviors that society is used to seeing and believing. While their social expectations profoundly impact a person, family also plays an important role in perspective because they help you create morals to live by to help you be successful and do well in life. An individual’s family and social norms have the most influence on one’s perspective because it causes one to question their acceptance or belonging in society and whether or not they fit in with society’s idea of normal.
Family has a great impact on a person’s point of view because you are closest with your family, they are the ones who are always there for you and help you make choices and most people would take into consideration of what their family’s
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For example in the passage, “Where Worlds Collide” by Pico Iyer, he says, “Dodgers caps and Rodeo Drive t-shirts, with the maps that their cousins have drawn for them and the images they’ve brought over from Cops and Terminators; They come out dazed and disoriented, heads still partly in the clouds” (Iyer 101). These are the social norms that people are used to seeing in society and from the expectations from society many people feel peer pressured to take in society’s perspective because people want to be socially accepted. Furthermore, in the passage, “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Robert Lake, the little boy meets a brand new friend after moving to a New school and he can’t even hang out with him because of the racial discrimination in society, “It is okay if you have to play with him at school but we don’t allow those kind of people in our house” (Lake 109). This can alter one’s perspective because for the little boy who is being discriminated because of his race is now going to think that all people in society are going to be like that and treat him the way that other little boy’s parents had treated him so he’s going to be very cautious when meeting new people now and because the mother had said that the little boy will always have the thought in his head like, “What’s wrong with me” but in reality nothing is wrong with him some people are just uneducated and